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High expression of TAZ indicates a poor prognosis in retinoblastoma

Overview of attention for article published in Diagnostic Pathology, October 2015
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Title
High expression of TAZ indicates a poor prognosis in retinoblastoma
Published in
Diagnostic Pathology, October 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13000-015-0415-9
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Yiting Zhang, Chunyan Xue, Hongjuan Cui, Zhenping Huang

Abstract

The transcriptional co-activator, TAZ, is an important effector of the Hippo pathway and is critical for the development of human cancers. However, the expression and prognostic significance of TAZ in retinoblastoma is currently unclear. TAZ expression was examined in 43 retinoblastoma samples by immunohistochemistry. The relationship between TAZ expression and the clinicopathological features of retinoblastoma was also analyzed. Cox regression and Kaplan-Meier survival analyses were used to identify the prognostic factors for retinoblastoma patients. Finally, the effects of TAZ on cell proliferation were explored through lentivirus-mediated downregulation of TAZ in retinoblastoma cells. TAZ was highly expressed in retinoblastoma tissues and was associated with regional lymph node classification (P = 0.013), largest tumor base (P = 0.045), and differentiation (P = 0.019). Moreover, patients with high TAZ expression had shorter overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS), loco-regional relapse-free survival (LRRFS), and distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS) time than patients with low TAZ expression (P < 0.05). Multivariate analysis showed that high TAZ expression was an important prognostic factor for retinoblastoma patients. In addition, downregulation of TAZ expression significantly suppressed tumor cell proliferation by blocking the transition of the cell cycle from G1 to S phase. Our findings suggest that the high expression of TAZ plays a significant role in retinoblastoma's aggressiveness, and predicts poor prognosis for patients with retinoblastoma.

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Unknown 29 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 6 21%
Researcher 6 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 21%
Student > Bachelor 3 10%
Other 2 7%
Other 3 10%
Unknown 3 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 9 31%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 14%
Psychology 1 3%
Other 1 3%
Unknown 5 17%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 08 November 2015.
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#12,937,167
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#8
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